It was a pleasant surprise not just for us, but also for many game developers out there working on PS4 titles now and completely unaware of the upgrade - a final flourish to the design seemingly added in at the last moment to make PlayStation 4 the most technologically advanced games console of the next gaming era.

Johan Andersson
Rendering Architect at DICE working on Frostbite and future DICE/EA games

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lots of memory is essential for both the CPU & GPU to create large & alive game worlds

If Killzone was running with 4gb gddr5. Well fuck. Great move by Sony providing they can shift the hardware come release. Developers seem very, very happy with this.
Epic co founder seemed very happy on Game Trailer's after show

*slow clap*

02-21-2013

Two4DaMoney

Sony Rick Roll'd Devs. Devs were unaware of there being 8GB of GDDR5 RAM in the PS4.

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The official specs are in for the PlayStation 4 and what we have is, by and large, confirmation of existing DigitalFoundry stories - with one outstanding, exciting exception. At the PlayStation Meeting yesterday, Sony revealed that its new console ships with 8GB of GDDR5 RAM, not the 4GB we previously reported. It was a pleasant surprise not just for us, but also for many game developers out there working on PS4 titles now and completely unaware of the upgrade - a final flourish to the design seemingly added in at the last moment to make PlayStation 4 the most technologically advanced games console of the next gaming era.

If Devs are happy then everyone from Sony to the gamer is happy with the PS4.

02-21-2013

Thorzilla

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Originally Posted by radgamer420

Imagine what Killzone will look like after this news. Wow.

They probably knew this already, but I'm sure this move will make more and more devs speak about PS4. Hell, more ram means devs can push a lot of things into the machine at the same time without having to worry much about limitations. Bring on the games!

02-21-2013

Two4DaMoney

I definitely can't wait to see engines optimized to take full advantage of these specs.

02-21-2013

Ghost

I'm so keen to watch Sony continue its legacy of gaming excellence. It was awesome when epic said that the U4 demo was a love letter to console makers and Sony answered. The dude was so happy with what Sony had shown. I can see 3rd party falling madly in love with Sony now that it has an easy to program behemoth.

02-21-2013

RyanGT

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Originally Posted by radgamer420

Imagine what Killzone will look like after this news. Wow.

Imagine what games will look like a year after PS4 has been out. . This is only the beginning :D

02-21-2013

sosovoo

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Originally Posted by RyanGT

Imagine what games will look like a year after PS4 has been out. . This is only the beginning :D

Now the question is will these developers be equally as happy with Microsoft's new architecture whatever that will look like?

02-21-2013

Aquanox

Wisest choice made.

"Last minute changes"?

Can't help wondering if it has anything to do with the Xbox 720 leaks, going towards the same direction.

02-21-2013

MonkeyClaw

I was expecting only 4GB of GDDR5 with possible high hopes of them throwing in an additional 4GB of DDR3 making it 4GB GDDR5 and 4GB DDR3 totaling 8GB, but I never imagined they would throw down like they did and make it have 8GB of GDDR5! I am glad they did this, it is going to make for some truly amazing gaming in the near future! I am still wondering if GTA V was pushed back because of the PS4/Next Xbox, guess we will find out at E3!

02-21-2013

Two4DaMoney

Sony is probably thinking long term and has a plan for stacked ram

02-21-2013

MonkeyClaw

I just hope it will allow for the two missing elephants to be added into Dhalsim's stage...

Yeah, this is the stuff we would fret over back in the early 90's! Man how the times have changed!

Lol... I feel old. -_-

02-21-2013

PS4freak

I guess the reveal was for the devs too. :lol: I have heard nothing but praise coming from devs about the structure of the system. This is probably the best new that could have come out of this reveal. Make the devs happy, get good games. It's a win for everyone!

02-21-2013

keefy

First time ever a console has had the same or in some cases more RAM as amany many PC's?
According to Steam around 29% of Steam users have 8GB RAM or more.